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For the first time in nearly 1,000 years, the Bayeux tapestry is back in Britain. Its arrival is a significant cultural moment, and a reminder that, in an age of social media and ubiquitous screens, historic objects still capture the public imagination.The British Museum describes the tapestry as one of the “wonders of the medieval world”. But the museum already houses many wonders, including one that is instantly recognisable: the Parthenon sculptures, chiselled away and illegally removed from Athens to be taken to Britain more than two centuries ago by Lord Elgin.There are striking similarities between the two pieces. Both…

⁠A ⁠federal judge ​ordered US President Donald Trump ​on Thursday to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS ​NOW ‌and Politico, ⁠saying his ban on the three media ‌outlets was likely unconstitutional. In a ⁠major setback for Trump in one of his ​biggest battles with the ‌media, US District Judge Tim Kelly issued his order in a ‌lawsuit that the news organisations ​filed contesting the ban that the Republican president announced on September 18. Read moreTrump bans media outlets CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House Trump ​had said on social ​media that the ​three outlets…

PARIS — Qui pour faire face à Marine Le Pen ? Donnée entre 30 et 31 % des intentions de vote dans le sondage Cluster 17 réalisé en exclusivité pour POLITICO entre le 15 et le 16 septembre, la candidate du RN confirme sa position de large favorite pour accéder au second tour de l’élection présidentielle de 2027. Le match pour la deuxième place est en revanche plus serré que jamais : pas de véritable favori entre Edouard Philippe (Horizons) et Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI). Dans le premier des deux scénarios testés, le maire du Havre porte seul les couleurs du…

A new levy on developers to allow almost 16,000 homes to be built in the environmentally protected Norfolk Broads has been cut by tens of thousands of pounds per house, the Guardian can reveal.Ministers say the government’s environmental delivery plans (EDPs) were created to unblock housing growth across the country and are a “win-win” for development and nature.They allow environmental damage to protected habitats and species to be overlooked as long as developers pay into a nature restoration fund, which is used for conservation actions at a later date designed to address the impacts. Once the first instalment of the…

I’ll say it: Starz is the “bad boy” of streaming platforms. Although competitor HBO is much better known, Starz’s content has a similar vibe, focusing on bold, often gritty, action-heavy original series like Power and Outlander. Plus, Starz has a catalog of Lionsgate studio films like The Wolf of Wall Street and Django Unchained. Starz also offers a suite of over 17 channels and on-demand streaming, with original series, blockbuster movies, and niche genres, including the Starz Encore suite, with Spanish-speaking content, action, and western movies.Starz is also one of the most inexpensive streaming platforms, on average about $7 less than equivalent HBO Max subscriptions. Plus,…

Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, the first open model in a new class called Contrastive Language Models (CLMs). CLM does not generate text. It scores a set of candidate actions against the current state and returns probabilities. Their main baseline is Jev, the proprietary System One model from TypeSafe AI. Is it deployable? Yes. The Apache-2.0 head weighs 75 MB. It runs on 1 NVIDIA GPU under Linux, with vLLM serving the Qwen3-8B encoder. What a System One Model Does Jev entered limited early access on 15 September 2026. It returns typed values with probabilities instead of text. CLM targets the…

Swati KhandelwalSep 23, 2026Vulnerability / Linux A use-after-free in the Linux kernel’s AF_UNIX socket subsystem can be used to escape a container and gain root on the host, security firm DepthFirst said in research published September 22. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-80521 (CVSS score: 7.8), was fixed upstream on August 6, but Ubuntu has not shipped the patch for its 26.04, 24.04, or 22.04 LTS releases. DepthFirst released exploit code targeting Ubuntu 26.04. Ubuntu’s security tracker lists the Linux package on 26.04 as “vulnerable, work in progress.” The 24.04 and 22.04 releases are also affected through newer kernel packages, including…

The New York Stock Exchange and crypto exchange Blockchain.com have signed a memorandum of understanding to debut tokenized stocks.  According to a Wednesday statement, if approved, Blockchain.com users would be able to trade tokenized U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds on NYSE’s planned digital alternative trading system.  It comes as Wall Street increasingly eyes up Bitcoin and its related infrastructure. NYSE’s  parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, earlier this year announced it had invested in crypto exchange OKX.  “People shouldn’t be limited in owning stocks based on where they happen to live or the brokerage and information they may or may not have…

Cool, marine air rolling off the Pacific Ocean led to a picturesque layer of morning clouds over western Washington and Oregon in mid-September 2026. Low-lying stratus clouds and fog extended as far inland as the western foothills of the Cascade Range. Near the coast, taller portions of the Olympic Mountains in Washington and the Oregon Coast Range appeared island-like, protruding above the cloud layer. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows the extent of the Pacific Northwest’s cloudy cloak on September 19, 2026, at about 10:45 a.m. Pacific Time (17:45 Universal Time). Abundant clouds also appear offshore over…

In September 2006, a helicopter crash killed 24 people, including then forest minister and senior officials from Nepal’s government and WWF — a day after they handed over a conservation area to resident communities.Since the crash, some conservationists say individual roles were replaced, but what was lost was never truly recovered, with visionary leadership growing scarcer since the accident.Nepal’s tiger population has more than tripled and forest cover has grown beyond 46%, built on the community forestry model the “lost generation”, but human-wildlife conflict and the emptying of hill villages remain as unresolved conservation issues.Devolving control of buffer zones…